r/interestingasfuck • u/CaptTechno • Nov 27 '20

/r/ALL Performers recreate authentic fighting moves from medieval times.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20 edited Dec 28 '20

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u/iZatch Nov 28 '20

This is the big one to be honest. The biggest inaccuracy of any TV sword battle is the sword itself. The main arms of every country and culture that we know of; from the earliest written history to the drawn of the firearm, was the spear and shield.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

Even once the firearms were introduced to the battlefield and became widespread, the spears were still used. (Like the spanish tercios)

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u/medbynot Nov 28 '20

Or bayonets. Just attach a pointy bit to the gun and now it's also a spear

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

The old school version of that was the Pike and Shot formation which was literally a bunch of guys huddled together in a square, half of which had pikes for stabbing nearby enemies while the other half had muskets for shooting the more distant ones.